BUON GIORNO! Volare, the song that made Modugnos success According to Wikipedia, Franco Migliacci started working on the lyrics of the song in June 1957, inspired by two paintings by Marc Chagall. He had planned to go to the sea with Domenico Modugno, but while waiting for Modugno to show up, Migliacci started drinking wine and eventually fell asleep. He had vivid dreams, and when he woke up, he looked at the Chagall paintings (reproductions) on the wall. In Le coq rouge was a yellow man suspended in midair, while in Le peintre et la modelle, half the painters face was coloured blue. So he started penning a song about a man who dreams of painting himself blue, and being able to fly. Later that same night, Migliacci discussed his lyrics with Modugno, and for several days they worked on the song, tentatively entitled Sogno in blu. For thirteen weeks in a row ‘Blu dipinto di blu’ sold 60K copies per day. The success was so great that, in 1959, Modugno won two Grammies.
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 13:12:50 +0000
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